"ဦးလေး" meaning in Burmese

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Noun

IPA: /ʔúlé/ Forms: le: [error-unknown-tag, romanization]
Etymology: ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”). The "be hesitant" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the "uncle" sense ("heavy sir" vs "going heavy in the head = hesitant"). Etymology templates: {{af|my|ဦး|လေး|t1=sir; head|t2=heavy; to attach importance to}} ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”) Head templates: {{my-noun}} ဦးလေး • (u:le:)
  1. uncle, specifically mother's younger brother
    Sense id: en-ဦးလေး-my-noun-GO1DGqtz Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Male, Male family members Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 43 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 36 Disambiguation of Male: 33 34 34 Disambiguation of Male family members: 40 30 30

Verb

IPA: /ʔúlé/ Forms: le: [error-unknown-tag, romanization]
Etymology: ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”). The "be hesitant" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the "uncle" sense ("heavy sir" vs "going heavy in the head = hesitant"). Etymology templates: {{af|my|ဦး|လေး|t1=sir; head|t2=heavy; to attach importance to}} ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”) Head templates: {{my-verb}} ဦးလေး • (u:le:)
  1. to be hesitant
    Sense id: en-ဦးလေး-my-verb-P-UPtnXs Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Male Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 43 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 36 Disambiguation of Male: 33 34 34
  2. (archaic) to be bored Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-ဦးလေး-my-verb-Ov3nCJRS Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Male Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 21 35 44 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 43 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 36 36 Disambiguation of Male: 33 34 34
     
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      },
      "expansion": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”).\nThe \"be hesitant\" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the \"uncle\" sense (\"heavy sir\" vs \"going heavy in the head = hesitant\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "le:",
      "tags": [
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        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 43 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 36 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 34 34",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "uncle, specifically mother's younger brother"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဦးလေး-my-noun-GO1DGqtz",
      "links": [
        [
          "uncle",
          "uncle"
        ],
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ],
        [
          "younger brother",
          "younger brother"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔúlé/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဦးလေး"
}

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      },
      "expansion": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”).\nThe \"be hesitant\" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the \"uncle\" sense (\"heavy sir\" vs \"going heavy in the head = hesitant\").",
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      ],
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        "to be hesitant"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဦးလေး-my-verb-P-UPtnXs",
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "hesitant",
          "hesitant"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "21 35 44",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "14 43 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 36 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 34 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "my",
          "name": "Male",
          "orig": "my:Male",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be bored"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဦးလေး-my-verb-Ov3nCJRS",
      "links": [
        [
          "bored",
          "bored"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) to be bored"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔúlé/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဦးလေး"
}

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    "Burmese lemmas",
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    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Male",
    "my:Male family members"
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      },
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      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”).\nThe \"be hesitant\" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the \"uncle\" sense (\"heavy sir\" vs \"going heavy in the head = hesitant\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "le:",
      "tags": [
        "error-unknown-tag",
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဦးလေး • (u:le:)",
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  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "uncle, specifically mother's younger brother"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "uncle",
          "uncle"
        ],
        [
          "mother",
          "mother"
        ],
        [
          "younger brother",
          "younger brother"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔúlé/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဦးလေး"
}

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      "name": "af"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”).\nThe \"be hesitant\" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the \"uncle\" sense (\"heavy sir\" vs \"going heavy in the head = hesitant\").",
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    {
      "form": "le:",
      "tags": [
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        "romanization"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "my-verb"
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  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be hesitant"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "hesitant",
          "hesitant"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Burmese terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be bored"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bored",
          "bored"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) to be bored"
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʔúlé/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဦးလေး"
}

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